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Save our NHS, StopISDS, stopping “Trade with Trump”, Climate Emergency and Brexit- all in the mix.

30/10/2019 by GJM

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I find it all too easy to get confused at the moment with so much stuff going on- and that’s not counting the domestic concerns like harvesting the apples or getting the paddy that was our lawn cut for the last time.

But perhaps that’s because a lot of these concerns are inter-related and one thing leads to another.

So when local GJN member Pia Feig, also a member of Keep our NHS Public, was putting together a public meeting with People’s Assembly’s “alternative Fringe” during the Conservative Party Conference she thought Global Justice might contribute. This led to Heidi Chow, being invited and speaking. Heidi was ideal as GJN’s senior campaigns manager and leading on the Pharmaceuticals campaign.

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We tweeted Heidi challenging other parties to follow Labour’s lead.

Her talk followed the news of Labour adopting a radical stance with respect to medicines and was entitled “Trading with Trump, what a trade deal will mean for the NHS and Trump”. It followed several activist NHS workers talking about their problems and campaigning where they work and developed people’s understanding of where things appear to be heading.

Heidi had already blogged on the threat to the NHS from American trade aspirations several months ago; she went further in Manchester, updating on the winds blowing to and fro with statements, push-back and denial (perhaps camouflaging under-the-table reformulation of ideas to be brought out later).

She pointed out the converging interests of a post-Brexit Brexiteer government eager to prove it can deliver a trade deal with the US and pressure on Trump to deliver “America First” trade deals as he comes up for reelection next year. Informal trade talks have been already going ahead and she believed it could be ready for signing as early as next July.

As trade deals normally take years one may feel this is likely to be a bit dynamic- simple horse-trading with quid pro quos rather than more careful considerations. The current loss of the Trade Bill with it’s pro-Trade Democracy amendments means the Government can strike and then bring a trade deal to Parliament for a take-it-or-leave-it decision as it has been accused of doing in respect to a “no deal Brexit”. This is in marked contrast to the existing EU system where the European Parliament is intimately involved in setting a mandate and continued scrutiny before voting. The Queen’s Speech contained nothing to dispel such fears.

A changed government (if Labour) might sink such schemes, but should a Tory Brexit happen, Heidi expected a UK-US trade deal very soon.

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Heidi explaining the threat of a Trump trade deal

She pointed out that traditional trade deals’ concerns over tariffs have been replaced by more extensive coverage of topics like “Intellectual property”, environmental regulation and access to public services and giving rights to foreign investors.

She went on to speak of the “negative listing” approach by which everything was up for trade (some might say “grabs”) that wasn’t specifically excluded. In the case of services for the NHS this ranges from portering, cleaning, and maintenance to clinical and testing- perhaps difficult for inexperienced non-hospital experienced trade negotiators to consider without leaving mistakes and loopholes. (Even sophisticated and experienced US negotiators had made about 1000 mistakes on such an exercise!)

The threat of US medicine prices hitting the NHS was no surprise to those of us who have been engaged in the GJN pharmaceuticals campaign. She saw Trump’s blaming the NHS for high medicines’ prices in the US as ridiculous when NICE here is having to ration medicines because of prices. The US explicitly wants high American prices to apply in the UK, thereby threatening the NHS’s work.

Beyond these immediate and more widely known threats she moved on to spell out the implication of corporate courts ( generically know as “Investor State Dispute Settlement”- ISDS). Although the US, already bitten by their rejection in the TTIP scheme, is not pushing these, our government hasn’t excluded them. This is despite their opening the door for massive drains on public healthcare funds, should claims be tabled objecting to healthcare-motivated policy decisions.

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Caroline Bedale of Keep our NHS Public showing a three-way link of NHS, Climate and Trade

But beyond these and more invisible is the threat posed by US corporate take-over of massive NHS data bases which could be transferred to the US and there mined to develop applications that can be sold back to the NHS providing it with diagnostics- not privatisation as usually understood, but nevertheless appropriation of NHS assets which will then be resold, ripping-off the NHS using its own resources; a more sophisticated 21st. century way corporate control can encroach on our NHS!

She said the US objected to any rules restricting cross-border data movement and wanted not only to take our data out of the UK, but then to keep their source code and algorithms.

When she had met Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary John Ashworth he hadn’t appreciate the probable implications of a trade deal with Trump- how much do most back-benchers unless we educate them?

Thanks are due to Heidi for an enlightening and inspiring talk- taking further even those who thought they were boned up on the subject. The only negative was that although those present were the sort of people who can be expected to go out and take the message to their communities and workplaces, we were a minute proportion of the Greater Manchester population who are at risk of these menaces.

The insidious influences of corporate lobbyists are constantly at work gently diffusing their world-view and norms into our society and decision makers’ thinking. To counter this we need to speak out now, whether it’s in relation to the NHS, other public services, the environment and dealing with the Climate Emergency, workers’ rights and conditions, food and chemical standards, animal rights or any one of any number of issues.

We need to speak loudly, clearly and repeatedly. Let’s do it!

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We took the message out to the site of Peterloo to generate publicity pictures, generated interest from passers by and were noticed and photographed by tourists.

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Filed Under: International Trade Tagged With: America First, animal rights, Big Data, Brexit, Climate Change, climate crisis, Conference, Conservative Party, cross-border, data, export, food standards, Fringe, Global Justice Manchester, Greater Manchester, Heidi Chow, Intellectual Property, IP, ISDS, Keep our NHS public, Labour, Manchester, medicines, negative listing, NHS, People's Assembly, Pharmaceuticals, Pia Feig, post-Brexit, privatisation, Trade, Trade Bill, Trade Democracy, Trading with Trump, Trump, UK, US, workers rights

The business of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains

09/05/2019 by GJM

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Education can sometimes give us answers, but often raises questions which lead us to further thought and investigation.

Such was my experience at Professor Genevieve LeBaron’s University of Manchester Global Development Institute lecture “The business of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains”, a representation of her report on forced labour. This was given appropriately perhaps on International Workers’ Day.

Irritatingly I bungled and missed the beginning of the lecture, but what I heard was sufficiently challenging I write now in the hope it will be published online and this will lead you to give it time.

Poor conditions on tea estates have been published widely, often as an incentive to support Fair Trade.

Professor LeBaron spoke on research in tea and cocoa supply in India and Ghana respectively and was GL WAll(irritatingly) tightlipped in not identifying specific corporations and certification schemes though Fairtrade Foundation, Ethical Tea Partnership, Trustea, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ were familiar names from the supermarket shelf amongst the standards she had investigated. She also stressed her work was on forced labour, not other issues like environmental sustainability, protection of workers from chemicals et al. She has dealt with this in related fields in the past and can be seen at Yale and SOAS and her recent academic publications.

She seems to relish being a boat-rocker in popular articles such as https://delta87.org/2018/10/ethical-certification-doesnt-eradicate-forced-labour/ as well as academic research and boasts her work had not been welcomed by some businesses (who make a living from certification). She declared that she had stopped buying Fairtrade tea and wondered what other ways she might achieve the goal of helping workers. This is not without reaction- one can feel touchiness on Fairtrade Foundation’s part in the Church Times last year.

However, whilst sympathising with the impatience felt by some companies, she was wary of “in-housing” social responsibility certification (such as Sainsbury’s “Fairly Traded” teas which GJMancester campaigned against in 2017) as untransparent and unaccountable.

Key findings as she had already given included: widespread/prevalent underpayment of workers by employers GL greywithholding payment, imposing penalties due to alleged failures to meet quotas imposed by employers, revenue generation by plantations by imposing debt-bondage with high repayment rates (for often non-existent) essential services.

In the cocoa businesses investigated workers were often required to provide additional unpaid labour for small family businesses who then lent money at punitive rates. 60% of cocoa workers were found to be in debt and 55% had no savings. 95% didn’t know if their farms were certified and very frequently there was no difference in the standards followed.

It was not clear there was any difference between multinational corporations and non MNCs, in part due to the domination of the tea chain by a small number of companies which may have espoused various verification schemes but have no real grip of producers- auditing visits often being short, cursory and perhaps limited to only 5% of producers, and that not looking for signs of forced labour.

She identified key factors in this sorry state as: the lack of permanent employment contracts- in cocoa the model of family farms has to be revised as many have hired staff as well and members of extended families brought in- so stories of “slavery” likewise may not fit. Temporary workers and (not surprisingly) women are often forced into exploitative situations.

GL buildingWhy does this happen? She identified several drivers: low prices which have stagnated over many years, rising costs (especially of labour) coupled with the cutting of governmental support for inputs and pesticides, and climate change, including bush fires, all add to the challenging business environment. As a result businesses economically exploit workers to balance their books and survive. However she didn’t advocate paying more at the shop, feeling higher prices should be paid out of traders mark-ups.

She also pointed out that whereas British anti-bribery legislation had teeth, the Modern Slavery Act 2015 with its focus on trafficking and coerced prostitution in the UK had no effective enforcement relating to supply chains overseas or requirement to demonstrate the effectiveness of measures taken. However there are proposals to amend the Act.

An unsettling event- showing perhaps the weakness of Fairtrade as we know it and showing the virtues of Traidcraft’s recent campaign to get the major UK tea companies to publish the originating estates of their leaves. So perhaps Fairtrade, as it currently stands, is not such a first step towards Trade Justice as I had fondly supposed. Hmmmmmm… one will have to keep one’s eye on this!

If you wish to study her work further, the book the lecture relates to is available on http://globalbusinessofforcedlabour.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Report-of-Findings-Global-Business-of-Forced-Labour.pdf

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From Fairtrade to Global Justice – campaigning in Fairtrade Fortnight 2019

29/04/2019 by GJM

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Chorlton Councillor Eve Holt shows support

Fairtrade can be regarded flippantly as an indulgence by the middle classes wanting to assuage their consciences by spending a few pence more on nice chocolate, wine, craft or textiles.

But although nobody ever gets rich from being a FT producer, the dividend paid and (self) respect accruing from having a fixed contract and not being at the mercy of manipulated markets is in itself not only a moral and morale good, it puts children in school and food in their bellies. And decisions made by community groups on the ground as to how they spend their money gives ownership and security to development projects such as clinics, infrastructure such as water supplies and roads, and training and communal workshop facilities.

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Whole families got involved!

So it’s natural that whatever the “mainstream” campaigns Global Justice Now is running, each year GJManc. tends to do a campaign action for Fairtrade Fortnight. This year the campaigning side of FTF was more in evidence with a petition calling for guaranteeing a “living wage” for chocolate producers under the hashtag #Shedeserves.

To this end we ran stalls on Friday and Saturday in Chorlton, picking up customers going to Unicorn on Friday and some ward councillors and Saturday shoppers. Initially leading with the FTF card, we followed up with GJN #StopISDS campaign cards, making the point that ISDS could stop the City council favouring Fairtrade (as well as a number of other evils).

Signing a campaign card

This worked well. People knew about FT and trusted it, appreciating the rationale of the campaign and its going beyond feel-good shopping; that done they were receptive to learning about the Trade (In)Justice potential of ISDS.

We also invited people to pose for photos (for tweeting) with messages and thereby promote this campaign further and reduplicate the effort. Chorlton councillors were happy to do so, and may be helpful in the future if their support is needed.  

Steph. Pennells

GJ Manchester

You can tell the Prime Minister that future trade deals should work for the poor here #SheDeserves

 

The stop ISDS petition is here

 

Is Fairtrade worthwhile? See the discussion on the GMTAN Trade Action Blog

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Filed Under: Actions, International Trade Tagged With: #SheDeserves, #StopISDS, child, Chorlton, Cllr. Eve Holt, cocoa, Corporate Courts, Corporate Power, education, Eve Holt, Fair, Fair Trade, Fairtrade, farmers, Global, Global Justice Manchester, Global Justice Now, ISDS, Justice, Poverty, Trade

It makes yer fink! (visit to the Commons International Trade Committee)

10/07/2018 by GJM

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On 20th. June I arrived in London on an early morning coach and having time to spare before a meeting went along to Parliament where the Commons International Trade Committee was taking evidence. You can watch it (and me) on https://goo.gl/kQrBab.

There were two hearings on the impact of Brexit on “Trade with the Commonwealth: Developing Countries”; the first with Professor Tony Heron, Department of Politics, University of York , and Brendan Vickers, Head of Research and Policy for International Trade and Economic Development, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Prof. was difficult to follow, Vickers had experience in the Commonwealth, presented some reports his body had produced and spoke energetically, drawing distinctions between different Commonwealth countries as trading partners.

JohnWeekesThe second sitting was perhaps more interesting in some ways as the line up were unreservedly “Free Traders” with a history of negotiation deals including NAFTA.

Not billed, but coming along to support the others was John Weekes, (Pic. Bennett Jones) is a member of the Institute of Economic Affairs and an architect of NAFTA which in the past he’s advocated the UK joining, along with TPP.

Second up was Alan Oxley, Australian former ambassador to GATT, Chair of the Free-Trade Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and International Trade and Competition Unit Advisory Council. His activities in relation to deforestation and the Palm-Oil industries were criticised by the Global South environmental group REDD-Monitor in 2010 citing an open letter sent by eminent scientists worldwide, including Sir Ghillean Prance FRS. Emeritus Director of Kew Gardens.

AlanOxleyLockwoodSmithThirds was Sir Lockwood Smith, of the International Trade and Competition Unit Advisory Council, a former New Zealand Parliament Speaker, High Commissioner and Trade Minister has a great smile, seemingly all the time. (Pic. from Legatum Institute)

He’s a kindred spirit, advocate of Britain being free to join the Trans Pacific Partnership and promoted by Brexiteers: http://www.leavemeansleave.eu/media/sir-lockwood-smith-winner-yesterday-uk/ShankerSingham.jpg

Lastly came Shanker Singham (Pic. from Twitter), a colleague of Alan Oxley and (at the time of the hearing) Director of the International Trade and Competition Unit and the IEA: “A hard-Brexit guru whose thinking has influenced senior cabinet ministers” who has since lost his job at Dept. of International Trade over a ““potential conflict of interest”. He had been advising on trade policy while working four days a week at the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank but this month took a part-time role advising the PR firm Grayling.” (Times; paywall). The extent of his work and his frequent privileged access as a “Hard Brexit svengali” has been catalogued by Open Democracy and his outlook can be see in https://reaction.life/brexit-golden-opportunity-reshape-way-world-trades/.

With such an interesting line-up their opinions, in as much as I could understand them, weren’t too difficult to guess. Sir Lockwood in particular rounding off his contribution with the confident assertion that the UK should clearly cut its ties with the EU.

The chair, Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP for the Western Isles) showed that he had some awareness of Trade Justice concerns and the potential empowerment of women through trade, leading to Brendan Vickers and Tony Heron, talking about “Women’s empowerment”, though the magnitude of achievements they could point to seemed comparatively slight and fragile when compared to the vision of the Free Traders. (One might wonder if the few millions thrown into such projects through “Aid” are really mere sops.)

Challenging the Free Traders he asked where the wellspring for a trade agreement should be – perhaps Trade ministers meeting in an airport lounge? This was answered by Singham neatly hopping from the asserted necessity of executive government doing trade to the impossibility of a country negotiating with another parliament. He favoured the US system where parliament (through committees and “cleared advisors”) might play “an advisory role” with access to secret documents and industry and trade advice- not publicly available to every Tom, Dick or Harriet. MacNeil challenged again and Singham said Government should set the agenda with Parliament having an “up or down vote on the agreement”.

John Weekes’ shared Canadian experience where a government that had previously called an election to get a free trade deal through its parliament decided a policy of openness and candour (“without giving away secrets”) – resulting in more informed discussion and the trade minister saying that a well informed opposition was much easier to deal with than an uninformed one.

Oxley’s contribution seemed to reflect an assumption that business should be consulted, not civil society – although the public had to be told the purpose of discussions, ongoing consultation wasn’t espoused.

It was sad to see that some members of the committee were absent, not contributing or slipping out. The Committee has 11 members; not half attended. (This was particularly notable with Labour members, however Chris Leslie took an active part.) What sort of scrutiny and thinking does this reflect?

I wasn’t the only witness to proceedings. John Hillary (now Head of Trade Policy, Labour Party) and Manchester’s former trade doyen Gabriel Siles-Brügge, now moved to Warwick and “providing support and advice” to the Committee. Disagreeing about Brexit, they share misgivings about potential trade injustices.

I was left with several things to think about:

  1. If paying peanuts leads to hiring monkeys, what sort of advice can you get if you invite “Free Trade” negotiators from “think tanks”?

  2. Will the Committee hear the ideas of Trade Justice advocates or people engaged in shaping regulations to protect workers, industries, environment et al.? They heard Nick Dearden as an advocate of Trade Justice back in November (See https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/international-trade-committee/news-parliament-2017/trade-bill-evidence-17-19/), but what about actual negotiators?

  3. Why weren’t members of the Committee there?

  4. Do members of the Committee (or anyone else in Westminster beyond Carolyn Lucas) ever seriously ponder the desirability of (economic) “Growth” or even “Degrowth”?

  5. Why weren’t more members of the public there?

  6. Wouldn’t it improve our thinking, arguing and campaigning if we listened to and thought about what is actually said by people rather than depending on second hand images through NGO briefings and simplified stereotypes and slogans.

You can readily find such meetings on the Commons website and that day one was spoilt for choice, other hearings involving HS2, the state of Brexit negotiations, Northern Ireland agriculture, Benefit Sanctions, local authority support for Grenfell Tower residents, the proposed ASDA/Sainsbury’s merger and the work of the government’s equality office, to name but a few in the morning.

As long as you leave weapons, placards, tools, whistles and a few other things at home you can get in to walk the corridors of power for free with no more trouble than turning out your pockets and being frisked. They scan bags which you have to keep with you – though I don’t know if they would accept a suitcase. For more information see https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-and-tours/ukvisitors/committees/

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Filed Under: International Trade Tagged With: Brexit democracy, House of Commons, Trade Democracy, Trade Transparency

Come and join the fun

17/05/2018 by GJM

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May 1868 saw the beginning of the TUC in Manchester and to celebrate a week of activities was put together under the hashtag #TUC150 with Global Justice Manchester invited and represented.

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Julie Ward MEP supports free global movement at the TUC 150 Anniversary Festival

First up was an indoor festival at the Mechanics’ Institute on Sunday 29th. Apr. We had booked a Heidi from GJN in London to speak, but with only one non-group member having signed up to speak cancelled her presentation.          Unfortunately this cancellation wasn’t known to some people at the Mechanics’ and several turned up and were disappointed. We pledged to looking to reschedule a speaker. We got a dozen or so cards signed for the Trade and Pharma campaigns and distributed a few, but a disappointing total given the potential. Against that our old friend Julie Ward came along and was only too happy to be photographed with our new Bridges not Borders booklet.

The following Monday night (May Day itself) saw a #McStrike at McDonald’s Oxford Street. We had been invited through War on Want and had a presence at both the post-midnight and 07.00-08.00 protests and were able to distribute a score of cards, though some seemed more interested in McBashing than considering the wider threat, even when explained to them. At least we got a photo of erstwhile Green Leader Natalie Bennett with one of our cards!

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Natalie Bennett says ‘don’t give Liam Fox a blank cheque’

A third event was the annual TUC May Bank Holiday Sunday march, this time in Salford. As before we had a presence (this time with a small flag). Some there had already been spoken to at the previous events! We had a nice stroll in the sunshine round some leafy back streets (in Salford!) and ended up at Sacred Trinity for some mutual massaging of passion at which it was not the done thing to be heard to be too hostile to the Labour Party, though some may have thought their policies of the recent past not dissimilar to the Conservatives. This saw a few more cards dished out and got us mentioned in the Salford Star. The MEN didn’t cover the festival or march, but did cover the protest- using photos that had been tweeted by those present, their not having turned up. Better coverage was given by the Salford Star http://www.salfordstar.com/

During the year we get and find invitations to a number of events where we meet like-minded people who are likely to be amenable to supporting an card action. Some of these may be at an indoor stall, others peripatetic, talking to people on a march or at a rally. But, valuable as they may be, these are “the usual suspects”. There are also chances to have a presence at community events such as carnivals. These give us a chance to spread our campaigns to people who wouldn’t call themselves “activists”, but are concerned when we discuss the links between their immediate concerns and global issues and injustices. Although the fruit of these exchanges may seem to be just one or two signatures, they may lead to their recalling us later and taking action through a website or independently.

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A trade unionists shows support for the ‘dangerous deals’ campaign

The success of all this indirect campaigning- multiplying petitions- depends on a number of issues, including the weather and other stories that may dominate the news. But it is linked to the number of people spreading the word and conversations had.

During the #TUC150 events we had no more than three present and only harvested a handful of cards. Could you join us on another occasion? We all have family commitments and other demands and so can’t make every event, but we have the props, can share tips based on experience, and nobody has to be an expert.

Keep an eye on our postings to find dates for your diary- we have Envirolution in Platt Fields happening on Sat. 2nd. June (- write a couple in, come along and feel the satisfaction of multiplying your effect on decision-makers.

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Filed Under: Actions, Big Pharma, Events, International Trade, Migration

Trade Democracy in the Sunshine

18/04/2018 by GJM

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Saturday 14th. April found us at Chorlton & Whalley Range Big Green Happening- this year moved to the Carlton Club in Whalley Ra. The sun shone and folk came along who were quite amenable to conversations and sympathetic to our campaigns.

Primarily we sought signed cards to MPs to support Caroline Lucas’ NC3 amendment to the Trade Bill (which will save dozens of specific campaigns tackling individual bilateral trade deals). This harvested 49 cards.

 

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Brian Candeland, Green Party

Candidate for the Chorlton Park Ward

on Manchester City Council

realizes the link between trade and

environment.

 

As a follow-up we also asked people to sign War on Want’s trade card which asked MPs to take up the issue of trade democracy with the government. (This brought a further 32 cards.)

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Liz Howard, Minnie Mouse and Manchester Friends of the Earth demand Trade Democracy!

Secondarily we promoted the GJN Pharma campaign gaining 17 cards.

Two people went out of their way to sign up for updates and contact from Global Justice Manchester and we gave away some briefings, posters, complementary back copies of 99 and badges.

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Jess Mayo, emailing her MP.

We met a number of old campaigning friends, allies and acquaintances. These included Jess Mayo, Green Candidate for Manchester Gorton in the 2017 General Election. She objected to using a paper card but took action there and then. She emailed her MP, Kate Green to thank her for co-sponsoring the amendment saying “Credit where credit is due”.

We’ve ordered more materials for the May Day/ TUC 150th. Anniversary event at the Mechanics Institute in a fortnight’s time. But time is short and the issue is critical so we can’t be complacent. The government may feel the Syria crisis provides good opportunities to push through their Bill whilst the media and attention is focused on something more spectacular. The cards should be on MPs desks by the end of this week. Let’s get some more!

Steph. Pennells,

GJ Manchester

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Filed Under: Actions, Big Pharma, Events, International Trade Tagged With: 150th Anniversary, Big Green Happening, Big Pharma, Brian Candeland, Carlton Club, Caroline Lucas, Chorlton, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, ecology, environment, Friends of the Earth, Green Party, Jess Mayo, Manchester, Mayday, Mechanics Institute, NC3, Trade Democracy, TUC, War on Want, Whalley Range

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